EXTREMELY

RARE
PHOTOGRAPHS
The last time Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was arrested
by the British police
Indira Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin And Jawaharlal Nehru in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, 1953
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar with his wife Dr Savita
Ambedkar, helper Sudama and their pet dog
Poster of the death sentence judgment Of Bhagat Singh,
Sukhdev, Rajguru and others, 1930
Sir C V Raman explaining the Raman Effect to his
students in 1930 at Presidency College
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore & Dr Radhakrishnan after the Oxford University
Convocation on August 7, 1940
With his granddaughter and grandnephew in Santiniketan on
10 April 1934.
Tagore’s Last journey from Shantiniketan to
Kolkata
Tagore on meet Sri Aurobindo
Dr. Rajendra Prasad with President’s Bodyguards (PBG)
on the streets of Chandni Chowk, Delhi
A young French boy introduces himself to Indian soldiers
who had just arrived in Marseilles to fight alongside
French and British forces in World War I, September 30,
1914
A library with books being divided into India and Pakistan
during Partition in 1947
First day (December 9, 1946) of the Constituent Assembly
Earliest known photograph of the Taj Mahal taken by Dr.
John Murray of the East India Company in the 1850s
The ruins of Sikandar Bagh Palace in Lucknow with the
skeletal remains of rebel sepoys in the foreground, 1858
Marriage of Yuvaraja Kantirava Narasinharaja Wadiyar to
Yuvarani Kempu Cheluvammanniyavaru Urs in Mysore,
1910
Howrah Bridge under construction, 1930s
A girls’ school in Jaipur, Rajasthan, 1870s
A railway engine on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway line
in the 1880s
Elephants loading supplies on C-46 planes in India during
World War II
 Zebra cart being used as a mode of transport in Calcutta
in the 1930s
Young Indian nationalists affixing the Boycott Sign on a
foreign cart in the streets of Bombay, 1930
The Great Gama and his brother Imam Baksh square off
during an exhibition match held in front of the Red Fort in
Delhi, 1940s
People enjoying a ferris wheel ride in Benares (Varanasi), 1960s
Maharani Gayatri Devi, Princess of Jaipur, on her wedding
day
Professor M.S. Narasimhan demonstrating the first Indian
digital computer to Jawaharlal Nehru at Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research (TIFR)
A rare photoshoot of Madhubala for the LIFE
magazine
A 1970s photo of Amitabh Bacchan and family

Naval Tata, Ratan Tata and Noel Tata

Anna Hazare when he was in the army
A rare photograph of Nehru and the First Lady
Jacqueline Kennedy watching a snake charmer
A rare school picture of Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod
Kambli
Pictured on the deck of British Navy in Kenya, 1967, is
this Cockerel -Fighter, Sir Mohinder Dhillon from
Pujab, who was also one of Africa's greatest
cameramen
Two Indian men being hanged by British during the
First Freedom Struggle of India in 1857
A Glucose-D biscuits ad poster featuring Amzad
Khan aka Gabbar Singh
An Air India advertisement with Zeenat Aman as their
poster girl
One of the first pictures of Vivekananda in America
with Narsimhacharya (standing) alongside himself at
the desk
M. S. Dhoni when he was still at school
The Governor General of India, C. Rajgopalchari, giving
Lady Mountbatten a farewell embrace, 1948
The Rolls Royce Depot in Bombay
The first Indian cricket team tour to England, in 1886
A rare photograph of ex- President Pranab Mukherjee some
thirty years back
Subhash Chandrqa Bose with parents
The last photograph of Mahatma Gandhi
A picture showing the first Indian woman to become a pilot,
Sarala Thakral. She was just 21 years old then.
A student at the University of Madras in 1948, where they
usually tied their hair to a nail to keep from falling asleep
while studying
Jawaharlal Nehru Meeting Albert Einstein At Princeton,
USA, 1949
Aerial view of Maidan, Kolkata in 1870
Bill Gates caught for driving without a licence in 1977
Queen Elizabeth posing during World War 2 service
Osama bin laden in 1970's. From the right second last in
green shirt.
Steve Jobs discussing future of computers with Bill Gates in
1991
First Modern Olympics runners held in Athens, Greece -
1896
Construction of Eiffel Tower in 1880
Early sketch of the famous Mickey Mouse
Walt Disney on the day they opened Disney Studios
Che Guevara enjoying a drink
The last known Tasmanian Tiger (now extinct) photographed in 1933
German air raid on Moscow in 1941
Winston Churchill out for a swim
The London sky after a bombing and dogfight between British and
German planes in 1940
Martin Luther King, Jr removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960.
The boy is his son.
Google begins.
Nagasaki, 20 minutes after the atomic bombing in 1945
he only photograph of a living Quagga (now extinct) from 1870
Hitler’s bunker
A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan in 1944.
The original Ronald McDonald played by Willard Scott
 The first
McDonalds
California lumberjacks working on Redwoods
Construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961
The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu in 1912.
Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro, Brazil
Leo Tolstoy telling a story to his grandchildren in 1909
Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship

Construction of the Statue of Liberty in 1884

Albert Einstein’s office photographed on the day of his death
 A
liberated Jew holds a Nazi guard at gunpoint.
breaking of the Berlin Wall in 1989

Titanic leaves port in 1912

Adolf Hitler’s pants after the failed assassination attempt at Wolf’s Lair
in 1944
ENIAC, the first computer ever built
Ferdinand Porsche (yeah, that Porsche) showing a model of the
Volkswagen Beetle to Adolf Hitler in 1935
The unbroken seal on King Tutenkhamen’s tomb
Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left this family photo behind on the
moon in 1972.
The crew of Apollo 1 practicing their water landing in 1966.
Unfortunately, all of them were killed on the launch pad in a fire.
An aircraft crash on board during World War II
Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Warren G. Harding (29th president of
USA), and Harvey Samuel Firestone (founder of Firestone Tire and
Rubber Co.) talking together
 In June 1963, most Americans couldn’t find Vietnam on a map. But there was no
forgetting that war-torn Southeast Asian nation after Associated Press photographer
Malcolm Browne captured the image of Thich Quang Duc immolating himself on a
Saigon street. Browne had been given a heads-up that something was going to happen
to protest the treatment of Buddhists by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Once
there he watched as two monks doused the seated elderly man with gasoline. ―I
realized at that moment exactly what was happening, and began to take pictures a few
seconds apart,‖ he wrote soon after.

His Pulitzer Prize–winning photo of the seemingly serene monk sitting lotus style as he
is enveloped in flames became the first iconic image to emerge from a quagmire that
would soon pull in America. Quang Duc’s act of martyrdom became a sign of the
volatility of his nation, and President Kennedy later commented, ―No news picture in
history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one.‖ Browne’s photo
forced people to question the U.S.’s association with Diem’s government, and soon
resulted in the Administration’s decision not to interfere with a coup that November.
kevin Carter knew the stench of death. As a member of the Bang-Bang Club, a quartet
of brave photographers who chronicled apartheid-era South Africa, he had seen more
than his share of heartbreak. In 1993 he flew to Sudan to photograph the famine racking
that land. Exhausted after a day of taking pictures in the village of Ayod, he headed out
into the open bush. There he heard whimpering and came across an emaciated toddler
who had collapsed on the way to a feeding center. As he took the child’s picture, a
plump vulture landed nearby.

Carter had reportedly been advised not to touch the victims because of disease, so
instead of helping, he spent 20 minutes waiting in the hope that the stalking bird would
open its wings. It did not. Carter scared the creature away and watched as the child
continued toward the center. He then lit a cigarette, talked to God and wept. The New
York Times ran the photo, and readers were eager to find out what happened to the
child—and to criticize Carter for not coming to his subject’s aid. His image quickly
became a wrenching case study in the debate over when photographers should
intervene. Subsequent research seemed to reveal that the child did survive yet died 14
years later from malarial fever. Carter won a Pulitzer for his image, but the darkness of
that bright day never lifted from him. In July 1994 he took his own life, writing, ―I am
haunted by the vivid memories of killings, corpses, anger and pain.‖
It’s the most perilous yet playful lunch break ever
captured: 11 men casually eating, chatting and
sneaking a smoke as if they weren’t 840 feet above
Manhattan with nothing but a thin beam keeping them
aloft. That comfort is real; the men are among the
construction workers who helped build Rockefeller
Center.
Mary was a five-ton Asian elephant, also known as Murderous Mary, who performed in
the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. After killing a trainer in Kingsport, Tennessee,
she was hanged in 1916. Her death is sometimes interpreted as a cautionary tale of
circus animal abuse during the early 20th century.
Firing Squad In Iran, 1979
JFK Assassination, Frame 313, 1963
Munich Massacre, 1972
When a horse trots or gallops, does it ever become fully airborne? This was the
question photographer Eadweard Muybridge set out to answer in 1878. Railroad tycoon
and former California governor Leland Stanford was convinced the answer was yes and
commissioned Muybridge to provide proof. Muybridge developed a way to take photos
with an exposure lasting a fraction of a second and, with reporters as witnesses,
arranged 12 cameras along a track on Stanford’s estate.

As a horse sped by, it tripped wires connected to the cameras, which took 12 photos in
rapid succession. Muybridge developed the images on site and, in the frames, revealed
that a horse is completely aloft with its hooves tucked underneath it for a brief moment
during a stride. The revelation, imperceptible to the naked eye but apparent through
photography, marked a new purpose for the medium. It could capture truth through
technology. Muybridge’s stop-motion technique was an early form of animation that
helped pave the way for the motion-picture industry, born a short decade later.
First Cell-Phone Picture, 1997

Boredom can be a powerful incentive. In 1997, Philippe Kahn was stuck in a Northern
California maternity ward with nothing to do. The software entrepreneur had been
shooed away by his wife while she birthed their daughter, Sophie. So Kahn, who had
been tinkering with technologies that share images instantly, jerry-built a device that
could send a photo of his newborn to friends and family—in real time. Like any
invention, the setup was crude: a digital camera connected to his flip-top cell phone,
synched by a few lines of code he’d written on his laptop in the hospital. But the effect
has transformed the world: Kahn’s device captured his daughter’s first moments and
transmitted them instantly to more than 2,000 people.

Kahn soon refined his ad hoc prototype, and in 2000 Sharp used his technology to
release the first commercially available integrated camera phone, in Japan. The phones
were introduced to the U.S. market a few years later and soon became ubiquitous.
Kahn’s invention forever altered how we communicate, perceive and experience the
world and laid the groundwork for smartphones and photo-sharing applications like
Instagram and Snapchat. Phones are now used to send hundreds of millions of images
around the world every day—including a fair number of baby pictures.
Fetus, 18 Weeks, 1965
Hitler At A Nazi Party Rally, 1934
The Hand Of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen, 1895
first known photograph, 1820